#Alberta's leaders and captured regulators won't be satisfied until they've made the whole province a #sacrificeZone. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-coal-mines-1.7599449

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122023/state-of-denial-texas-polluters-evade-federal-law/

Well that's a fuckin' whirlwind of a story. Between this article, and the previous five in the six-part series ("State of Denial"), an (in my opinion) impenetrable case is made that TCEQ is a sham body, riddled with political and private-sector conflicts of interest that make it fundamentally unsuitable as an enforcement vehicle for federal environmental protection laws. It is a prototypical example of regulatory capture.

And the (federal) EPA's refusal to act in the face of that reality makes them complicit, if not downright duplicitous. As far as I'm concerned, the EPA is treating Texas as a Sacrifice Zone in order to allow out-of-state interests to continue accruing short-term returns, at the expense of the long-term health and well-being of Texans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8BgNkXzH0

#StatusCoupNews 2 hours ago

#AbandonBiden Responds to #ApartheidIsrael/#GazaCeasefireDeal

#FreePalestineNOW #CeasefireNOW

ANOTHER #SacrificeZone in America

Fom Queensland to NSW, the same story:

“Koala habitats have got smaller and smaller over the years, and the roads through them have got busier...The animals that draw visitors to the Queensland capital are being run down at an alarming rate. Just three days apart in November, separate pairs of mother and joey koalas were hit by vehicles and left to suffer on the side of the road. They were just hit and left. People don’t stop..This year we've hit over 100 within a 6km radius."

vehicle strikes crashes
https://au.news.yahoo.com/road-sign-exposes-dark-truth-about-popular-tourist-attraction-030508724.html
#koalas #wildlife #sprawl #roads #cars #motorists #roadkill #TheDrive #Brisbane #Bellingen #GlenifferRoad #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SacrificeZone #ecocide #Biodiversity #extinction makers

Urban sprawl is destroying wildlife habitats

The sub-urban package of houses, cars, roads and introduced pets drives Australian native animals out of their habitat. Their homes become eliminated or fragmented by roads which become extinction zones for wildlife. Unleashed cats and dogs maul the remaining homeless survivors.

The absolute priority is given to fossil fuel vehicles to fly from a to b at maximum speed. This entails a mobility design that declares any living body an obstacle on 'their path'. Some of the maimed crash survivors get scraped off the roads by volunteers. In some places wildlife admissions at the vet hospital had risen by 400 per cent in the last decade. It's a mono-cultural housing and infrastructure design where bio-diversity is non-existent in minds and policies.

"More wildlife was being forced into urban areas, leading to collisions with vehicles, attacks by domestic animals, and entanglements in fruit netting. Experts say behavioural changes need to be made and urban sprawl contained to reduce the harm to wildlife."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-24/werribee-zoo-injured-wildlife-urban-sprawl-melb-geelong/104614358
#sprawl #ecocide #cars #crashes #roads #BiodiversityCrisis #wildlife #coexist #extinction #SacrificeZone #harm #MobilityDesign #RescueService #volunteers #SettlerSociety #biodiversity

#usa #marshallislands : #military / #nuclearweapons / ##nucleartests / #radiation / #health / #environment / #sacrificezone

„The UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands, which representatives from the Pacific nation said has left their people with some of the highest rates of cancer globally.“

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155366

"The 98-page report, “‘We’re Dying Here’: The Fight for Life in a #Louisiana Fossil Fuel #SacrificeZone,” documents how residents of #CancerAlley suffer the effects of extreme pollution from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. Parts of Cancer Alley have the highest risk of cancer from industrial air pollution in the United States. These harms are disproportionately borne by the area’s Black residents."

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/25/us-louisianas-cancer-alley

@DawnRoseTurner The promise of change is something to look forward to for sure. But the people and the land have paid a helluva' price. No people should ever have to pay such a high price. #BCpoli and #cdnpoli made this territory a #sacrificeZone in service to extractive industries. This should never have happened and it needs to stop.